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A/N: I'm so sorry it took so long to upload guys! I've been super busy wth school work and things and I haven't had much time to write, but at every opportunity I've been trying my hardest! Also surprisingly this chapter was very hard to write and not my best, so I'm sorry about that x
Prompt from Guest
On the playground one day, third grade Beca and Chloe happen along little kindergartener Emily, who happens to be crying for some odd reason. (Maybe she lost her doll, or her best friend didn't want to be her best friend anymore, that kinda thing) So what happens? We get a little bit of a lovechild AU! And little tiny Emily following her new "big kid" friends around everywhere.
They're 9/10 (I don't live in America but I'm pretty sure that fits into the third grade category?) If not please tell me so I can change it xD
Emily
"Beca, you're going to fast, wait up!" Chloe shouted, chasing after her best friend.
"Nu-uh, I'm not falling for that one again, Chlo!" The brunette replied, running even faster.
Beca had stolen Chloe's gymnastics ribbon after lunch, which led to her laughing manically with the ribbon clutched tightly in her hand as she ran away from her friend. Chloe was the gymnast so everybody thought that she would generally be able to run faster. But Beca was light and quick when it came to speed. In fact, she was so fast that one Halloween she had refused to take off her The Flash costume for two weeks, claiming that she was as fast as he was and deserved to wear what he wore as well.
The faster of the two closed her eyes and laughed even louder, waving the ribbon about and doing (albeit awfully uncoordinated) spins in the air.
"Look, Chlo, I'm you!"
Chloe's eyes widened as she saw where Beca was heading "Beca, stop!"
"You have to catch me first!"
"No, really, STOP!"
"You're only saying that so you can take back your- oof!" She bumped into something small and jumpy, sending the older girl onto the floor. Beca propped herself up on her elbows and squinted at the ground "What was that?"
"Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry!" A tiny little girl with a round face and hair the colour of chocolate cried out, sulking around Beca and flailing her arms in an attempt to help her up.
"You're so cute!" Chloe said, walking over to the little girl. But then she realised the girl's cheeks were glistening with tears. "What's wrong?"
"I-I lost m-my Mimi!" The girl cried, plopping down onto the grass and crying her eyes out.
"Sorry, I didn't see you," Beca apologised, standing up. "Don't cry,"
"B-But she's g-gone!"
"We'll find her," Chloe smiled, making the younger girl sniffle and choke on another wail.
"Will you?"
"What does Mimi look like?" Chloe asked softly, kneeling down to the girl's height.
"Sh-She has y-yellow hair, a-and she's wears a pink!" Emily said, rubbing her eyes sadly.
"…A pink? A pink what?" Beca asked, confused.
"A pink!" Emily said forcefully, frowning at the older brunette.
Beca and Chloe shared a confused look, before shrugging at each other.
"Where're your friends?"
"I don't have!"
"You have no friends? Chloe, how could she have no friends? I had friends!" Beca asked, suddenly feeling oddly protective for the girl and not knowing why. The only person she ever felt sorry for was Chloe, and that was because she couldn't help it.
"By default" Chloe snickered at Beca's last statement, before shrugging as a reply to the initial question. "Where did you see Mimi last?"
Emily was quiet for a moment, in deep thought. Then she sniffled and said, "Rocks!"
Beca rolled her eyes. Trust this kindergartener to lose her 'Mimi' at the one place Kindergarteners weren't allowed to go to.
"Let's go find Mimi, come on, take my hand," Chloe said, standing up and holding out her hand for the five year old to take.
Emily gladly accepted the hand and allowed the redhead to pull her to their destination. She couldn't believe it. She had lost Mimi on her first day! But it was okay, because the older girls were helping her find her. When they finally reached the rocks all they could see was stones and pebbles.
"Okay, let's search!" Chloe said eagerly, dropping to her knees and moving a few rocks out of the way.
Beca groaned; she didn't like rocks, they were hard and spiky and all they ever did was hurt her in one way or another. She couldn't even skip a rock. But she got onto her knees anyway, as Emily seemed so heartbroken and Chloe was so enthusiastic that how could she say no?
They dug for a little while until finally Beca came across something pink. She held it out to Emily. "Is this Mimi?"
Emily looked at it for a long time, before shaking her head with a sigh.
They were searching for another ten minutes until finally Emily let out a gasp of delight. "Mimi! Mimi!"
In her hands was a rock.
A big, grey rock.
The rock was coloured in yellow at the top.
And had a pink pipe cleaner stuck to it.
"You have got to be kidding me," Beca muttered under her breath.
Chloe nudged her hard in the side. "We found her! She was with all her other rock friends, see?" Chloe said, trying not to giggle and to remain in control.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Emily squealed, hugging both Chloe and Beca tightly before beginning to skip off. But she stopped and turned around, smiling sweetly at them. "What's your name?"
"I'm Chloe, and this is Beca,"
"Thank you Chloe, thank you Becky!"
"It's Beca-"
"Bye Chloe, bye Becky!"
The two girls watched the little girl's retreating figure for a little while, before Beca turned to her best friend with an emotionless look.
"A rock. We were looking for a rock for twenty minutes."
"She loved it and needed it back!" Chloe said, getting up and grabbing the brunette's hand.
"It's a rock!"
"Well what about that Balloon?" Chloe teased her, nudging the smaller girl.
Beca pouted. "That was different,"
"How?"
"Whatever, Red." She grumbled.
"Emily Junk! Where have you been?" Emily's teacher, who just so happened to be Miss Abby, asked her as Emily skipped into her classroom, twenty minutes late.
Emily smiled up at her. "I was with my friends!"
"Your friends were here, with me."
"No, not them!" Emily scoffed, waving her tiny hand dismissively at the rest of her class. "My big kid friends!"
Miss Abby cocked an eyebrow. "This is your first day, Emily, and you already have older friends?"
Emily beamed and nodded excitedly, unaware of the suspicion of Miss Abby.
"What are their names?"
"Becky and Chloe,"
Miss Abby snorted, shaking her head. Of course it would be Beca and Chloe, those two had always been inseparable mischief makers. "Why were you with Beca and Chloe for so long?"
"I lost Mimi at rocks and then Becky fell over me and then Chloe and Becky helped me look for Mimi! She found now and I'm here!" Emily explained, holding up the rock.
Miss Abby rolled her eyes, but nodded. It was only Emily's first day, so she wasn't going to tell her off for anything. "Alright then, Emily, just make sure you're here on time next time. Go and take your seat,"
Emily nodded and sat down, humming her ABC's and playing with Mimi. A girl she didn't know the name of came up to her.
"You're playing with a rock!" She said.
Emily shook her head. "No rock, this is Mimi!"
"No, it's a rock, and it's ugly and weird! Like you!" The girl stuck her tongue out at Emily before stalking off.
Emily's eyes welled up with tears. She didn't really know what either word meant but she knew the girl wasn't being nice to her, or Mimi. Before the little bubbly brunette knew what she was doing, she stomped over to the girl and shoved her slightly.
"My big kid friends are going to tell you off!" She pouted, before running to the other side of the room and cradling Mimi.
Beca and Chloe were walking home at the end of the day when they bumped into a little kid sitting on the sidewalk.
"Emily?" Chloe asked, whilst Beca rolled her eyes, acting if she was bored of seeing the younger girl, but lifted her up to her feet anyway. "What're you doing on the floor?"
"Big kid friends! Becky! Chloe! I was waiting for you. Mimi and me need your help." Emily stated, her eyes lighting up at seeing her two friends.
"With what, Em?" Chloe asked.
"Meanie. She said Mimi is ugg and weird, like me. You have to tell her off!"
"Where is she? I'll beat her up." Beca growled, once again becoming far too overprotective of the little girl she had met earlier that day.
"Beca, they're five years old! You can't beat up a five year old," Chloe giggled, unclenching her best friend's fists softly.
"But they were being mean to Emily! I beat up Bumper!"
"He's our age, and we were six,"
"Fine,"
"Can you tell her off for me? Please?" Emily asked, bringing their attention back to the small girl standing in front of them.
"We can't tell her off, we're not allowed. But Aubrey can!" Chloe smiled brightly.
"Who's Abree?"
"Aubrey is the Hall Monitor, she can tell this kid off as she's allowed to," Beca said, absentmindedly stroking Emily's hair. Chloe quirked an eyebrow at her best friend's movements, making Beca blush and take her hand away.
Emily processed this new information for a moment, before nodding enthusiastically and hugging Beca, making the older girl stiffen, before relaxing again and giving Emily a one-armed hug back. Emily then turned to Chloe and did the same, before picking up Mimi and pressing her against Beca's leg.
"Ow!" Beca muttered under her breath. Mimi was really sharp.
"Thank you Becky! Thank you Chloe! See you tomorrow with Abree!" Emily bubbled, once again skipping off and turning the corner.
"You like her, don't you?" The redhead grinned, turning to Beca.
Beca scoffed. "What? No I don't! All little kids are annoying and snotty, I don't like any of them."
"Except Emily!" Chloe sang.
"I don't!"
"Yeah, because you definitely pat little kid's heads and give them hugs all the time."
Beca squirmed under Chloe's sarcastic gaze, lowering her eyes to the floor and blushing. "I do…" she said quietly, fidgeting.
"Sure you do, Becs, sure you do," Chloe smirked, entwining their hands and continuing on the way home.
A/N: Wow that was really hard! I guess I kind of wanted to get Emily's character just right, but still I don't think she's perfect :/ Anyway thank you so much for all the lovely reviews and prompts, I'm working on them! Hope you enjoyed this (pretty long, compared to my others) chapter, sorry for the long wait!
